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Quiet Guardian

Chapter 9: Façade

She was back.

Blonde hair that cascaded down her back, which I use to long to put my hands through, linking them and entwining them into the golden tendrils and hoping never to let go.

But that was a long time ago, and I had let go.

"What are you doing here?"

She stepped forward, manoeuvring herself inches away from my face, her breath was close enough to taste, I stepped back.

"What are you doing back here?" This time I made sure she heard, grasping her wrist with my hand, pulling her towards me.

"Oh Emmett don't worry I'm not interested in breaking up you and Bella's … well whatever you call it." I stared back shocked.

"What… wait how do you know?"

"When you left Emmett, I waited a few weeks before following you… your sent was still as strong as the day you left it, it led me right to you." I watched as Rosalie smelt the air and muttered to herself, "You were always so rich… like dark chocolate really, I use to love dark chocolate. Anyways like I was saying I followed you and wasn't I surprised to find you in bed with the human… maybe she just loves to be with vampires."

"SHUT UP, SHUT UP." I couldn't take anymore of Rose's teasing. I watched as she threw her head back and laughed.

"Oh Emmett you always were quite the defender weren't you. Now, now I didn't come to tear you two apart, actually I always speculated that you had a small crush on her."

"It's not like that."

"Oh whatever, Emmett I don't care I came back because truth is I missed you."

I watched her, trying to work out if she was just teasing again or if she really did miss me and if she wasn't teasing what did this all mean.

"Emmett, when did you become such a thinker. First things first, I'm not teasing you and second, when I said I missed you I didn't mean like that, I meant as a friend."

"Oh."

"You sound disappointed."

"No it's not like that, it's just… well we were never really friends were we?" I watched as her lips gave a small twitch, forming her passive lips into a smirk.

"I guess not. But I'm willing to try if you are?"

I took my time thinking it over, I guess I had always liked Rosalie, and I guess nothing could really be bad with us being just friends again.

"Ok we'll try." I gave a small smile, which she soon returned and together we left to go hunt.

We spent all night sitting up on my bed catching one another up on recent events, since my leaving. I found out Rose had left shortly after and had followed my scent back to forks where she had spent a few days watching Bella and I interact. She then left to go and meet up with some old friends in Venice, where she had stayed until returning back to forks where she met me again in the forest. By the time the sun had well risen, I could tell that us being friends had a real chance, that we could really pull it off.

"I guess we never really tried being friends before."

"Yeah we were always to busy…"

"Yep." We fell into a few rounds of laughter after that.

"Do you think if we had done it the other way, I mean being friends first that it could of worked out."

"I don't know… maybe." Truth was I didn't know.

Rose was quiet after that, I felt a need to console her and to tell her it didn't really matter, we were here now. I let my hand brush against her shoulder and watched her eyes meet mine, I let a smile creep on to my face and watched as her lips soon form one too.

"It doesn't matter about what could have been, we here now together, isn't that enough?"

"Maybe with someone else no, but with you I'm willing to believe it is." Rose's words said by anyone else, would have led to more confusion, but because of the way she had said them, I understood exactly what she meant. A new beginning, new hope, who knew Rose could be so poetic.

"Edward's back."

I watched as Rose spun around to meet my gaze, "What… no I would of smelt him."

"No you wouldn't have." I continued when I noticed her confusion. "His human."

Rose let out a loud gasp, "What… how?"

"His taking these pills."

I watched as Rose turned around muttering to herself, maybe she was contemplating going to ask him where she could get some, I always knew how much she wished she was human. It scared me to think that she might consider this and I would lose her too.

"What you thinking about Rose?" I needed to know.

"Uhh I have to go, I'll catch up with you later Em." Just as she was about to leave I reached at my hand, grasping her wrist and stopping her.

"Rose, please don't do this, this isn't life, it's death you get when you take those pills."

"You can't say that, the chance to of having a child; that to me is life and I would rather give up a lonely eternity to spend one lifetime human." I let go of her wrist, realising as I did I was letting go of yet another friend.

My curtains blew back and forth as Rose disappeared out my window and started running in Edward's direction. I fell back on my bed exhausted, which was weird because I knew it wasn't possible that I could be. I closed my eyes, trying to clear everything out of my head and just think of Bella, but that of course led to thoughts about Edward, which led to thoughts about Rose becoming human and I realised I was back to square one again.

And that's when I began to think, that if I could dream, close my eyes and let the magic take over and I would dream of a world where Bella only loved me and Edward and Rose were still my best friends. But I couldn't dream and my currant reality showed little of that dream ever coming true.

I knew I didn't have long and it was probably the one of most selfish decisions I'll ever make, but I couldn't let her do it, so I ran after… knowing I would catch up, I was faster.

"Emmett, what are you doing?" Rose managed to pull up inches from where I had raced to block her path.

"Stopping you, you can't do this."

"You don't have any right to say that anymore Emmett." The truth was I didn't. "Give me one good reason why I should stay a vampire and I'll think about it."

I paused trying to pull something amazing out of my head to stop her, but nothing came.

"See… there isn't anything good about being what we are…"

"Just don't do it yet, please give me at least a day to think of something." I could tell Rose didn't want to, but a small part of her still wanted to listen to me, she was trying her best to be my friend.

"Fine one day, but that's it ok."

I smiled a bit relieved she had given me a chance to change her mind, and after a quick goodbye I made my way back home. I had a lot of thinking that needed to be done.

I was lying face down on my mattress, trying to think of reasons being a vampire was better then human, sure we could run real fast and had incredible strength, but they were all reasons I loved being a vampire not Rosalie. I tried to re-call a time where Rose had said she liked being a vampire, but I came up blank… she never had.

"Emmett, what are you doing."

I turned my head to the side to see Bella standing there with a small smile on her face.

"Thinking."

"About what?" I watched as she began to make her way over to my bed and I realised right now honesty was the best thing at this moment.

"Rose came back." I watched as her smile fade from her face, maybe she was finally beginning to feel like I had felt when Edward came back.

"Oh."

"And I told her about Edward and now she wants to become human. I've got to stop her."

"Why?" I didn't understand why Bella didn't get it.

"Why… Because she'll just become what Edward is now. Taking those pills Bell's doesn't give you life, it gives you death."

"But it's not your choice it's hers, so why do you care so much?"

"The same reason you still care so much about Edward." I watched as she nodded and started to leave, I didn't say anything to stop her, because truth was I was glad she was gone.

I got out a pen and paper, writing on one side pro's and on the other con's and ruled down a line to separate them both. I spent the next few hours writing down on the list and by the time I was finished, the con's were defiantly out waiting the pro's, however one note that I had scribbled to the side of the paper stood out and I realised that was my only chance of saving her.

Rose stood where I left her hours ago, just letting the cool air sweep by her. She turned around, without me having to speak, she knew I was there.

"So, lets have it."

My sudden confidence faltered and I realised my one good reason for her staying a vampire had vanished from my very thoughts.

"Uhh…" I was stuttering to find something to replace it, but nothing came and I watched her start to move away.

"Because I don't want you too." It was selfish and I knew it wasn't really a reason at all, but it made Rose stop, which I was relieved for.

"That's a very selfish thing to say."

"I know, but I don't want you to become human if it means I might lose you." I watched as she stepped closer to me and eventually reached out putting her hands on my face.

"Are you asking for me to spend eternity with you Emmett?"

"Yes." It was a lie, and I realised what it meant by saying it, it meant I was letting go of everything I had built since I came back to forks… it meant I was letting go of Bella.

"What about Bella?"

"I was just looking out for her, she just another human." But she wasn't, she was so much more and I was letting her go. What was I doing?

"Ok then… I won't do it." Her lips came down to rest on mine, and I had to pretend that was what I wanted and kiss her back. While deep down, I felt as if I was being ripped in half.

What had I done?

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"Bella."

I watched as she opened her eyes, "Emmett?"

"Yeah."

Bella slowly sat up from her bed, hair a mess from having tossed and turned through the night without me by her side. It was for the best, I kept telling myself you don't want Rose to become human.

"I'm leaving."

I watched as once again tears began to leak out from her eyes, but this time I made no move to comfort her.

"I moving back in with Rose and Edward, I love them and I miss them." I watched her as recognition began to spread over her beautiful tear streaked face.

"You love them. Emmett do you still love Rose… the same way as you use to?" It was hard for her to say and I struggled not to tell her I didn't really as she chocked on a her words.

"Yes." I realised than that Edward hadn't meant anything he had said that day, he was just doing what I was doing now, making sure she wouldn't see that I was still in love with her and that I wanted nothing more but to hold her in my arms again.

It was all just a elaborate façade, that we hope she wouldn't see through… and she didn't and I watched her cry out, "But I love you." It took every effort not react and tell her that I still loved her too, that every moment I wasn't with her as much as it hurt (especially when I knew she still loved Edward) that I thought of her.

"I don't love you."

The words spilt from my mouth easier then I thought they would and I tried to remember that's what I wanted. I watched as she pathetically tried to reach out to stop me, like she was able to and I tried to fight off the lump in my throat which was forming by watching her attempt to keep me here with her. It was everything I would have done, if she had told me she wanted to be with Edward and she still loved him, if that had happened a few days ago things would be different and I would be the one pleading for her to stay… to stay with me. But things weren't different and I had to focus on finishing this and making my decision final.

"What your doing is pathetic, did you do this with Edward beg for him to stay too." It was harsh and I watched as Bella reacted to it, it was like I slapped her right in the face and with my vampire strength too. She was to wounded to reply and I took this moment to leave, walking slowly over to the window; apart of me knowing when I left I wouldn't be able to come back again. I turned around and looked at her, wishing then if things had happened differently that we would still be together, but I shook those thoughts quickly from my head there was really no point in being a optimistic in this world in which the only way to keep my friend from doing something that would lead to her death, was to break up with Bella.

"Of course, I'll always love you… in a way." If I knew then, that was what Edward had said just before he disappeared from her world too, I probably wouldn't have said it or maybe I would have because I knew then in Bella's eyes that she hated me; almost as much as I hated myself, and that they would be no second chances, because I had done what I promised never to do, I had left and I done it exactly as he had.

With no real goodbye, no chance to talk things over, no real explanation on how I had suddenly got to this point where leaving was the only answer.

I had just left.

A.N ok now i know heaps of you will hate me... but this is an angst story to and promise you will all enjoy the next chapter (well maybe.) Keep reading I love you all

-Katie